Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 2:20 pmPosts: 1089Location: Land of the First Kaiju

pastabake wrote:

Where was it? And what is one size too small for you?

A jewelry store in the Lower East Side that also sells adorable clothing – 'twas a medium and definitely could just baaarely pull it off, but not "I'm-willing-to-spend-over-$100-on-a-dress-that's-too-small-for-me" pull it off. Trust me, if it was going to work, I would have purchased it by now.

I have kind of scrawny legs so I like to pretend that I can pull off short dresses. If it is really short, I'll wear opaque tights and hope that that still keeps me decent. I'm weird...I couldn't possibly ever be comfortable showing cleavage (if I had any), but I don't give a damn about my legs flying all over the place.

I love this so very much. It's from Victorian Maiden in Japan so is unlikely to fit my fluffy Western European frame and would also be super expensive to ship, so I'm going to make my own.

I love this! I'd be curious to know how making your own goes. Do you have a pattern in mind that you are going to modify?

Yep - it's going to be the Burdastyle Princess Seam Pencil Skirt 04/2012 #118. The Princess seam panels look about spot on and I can adjust the waist and hemline, add in ruffles etc.

8Ball, did you make the skirt? I would love to see it. It's a great design.

_________________A whole lot of access and privilege goes into being sanctimonious pricks J-DubDessert is currently a big bowl of sanctimonious, passive aggressive vegan enduced boak. FezzaYou people are way less funny than Pandacookie. Sucks to be you.-interrobang?!

That's cute! I'm so jealous of everyone's ModCloth finds. I never like anything I order, and they make returns outside the US ridiculously expensive (you have to pay for shipping it back and you don't receive a refund on the original shipment).

The birds in the print even looks like Molly! Squee! Want! Hopefully it doesn't sell out before I'm in the mood to look at spring clothes. My birthday is in April--this would be an excellent use of birthday funds.

(I was looking for a cheap cream cardigan or something to match the scrf my aunt sent me for Christmas.)

_________________"This is the creepiest post ever if you don't know who Molly is." -Fee"a vegan death match sounds like something where we all end up hugging." -LisaPunk

I mainly love it because of the colour & the back but spending the same as the cost of the dress on a bra with clear straps just so that I can wear the it seems too ridiculous so I probably won't buy it!

I also bought an amazing lime green dress from Topshop at the weekend but it doesn't seem to be on the website. If I wear it this weekend I'll try to post a pic in the what you're wearing thread.

I returned the dress I posted above because it clashed with my new bright red hair and didn't look as pretty...but then I went back to Stop Staring and bought two I'd been eyeing for months, maybe even a year. No more clothes for a little while!